>>2023356We don't need to go that far. We'll need some kinda program, starting at say living within 10 miles (by car) and then gradually over a period of several decades getting it down to one, however city planning will need to be extremely careful about what businesses are allowed where and you'll need a majority of people to actually participate at city council meetings (which is very difficult to do if everyone's feeling discriminated against all the time) to ensure everything is done fairly and with enough information as everything gets torn down and built back up again. Or they could just hire a bunch of "experts" (i.e. shills) I guess.
Also factories in particular are huge sources of pollution even when they actually meet all environment requirements, so it's fair if people don't want to live that close to factories, it won't matter too much since the US doesn't actually have any factories anymore.
Technically for best results on the transportation front you'll get told where to live based on where you've been hired but a government full of ideologues is just guaranteed to be really incompetent about this and will probably put you somewhere horrible.
Also we need to do something about the two income trap, where you need two incomes to buy a decent house and there's few options for half of a couple to try self employment. That way only one person has to leave and go to work every day. I don't have any clear concepts for dealing with that. Or we can just give up and push for artificial wombs and nanny bots as the only way to reproduce or something, it'd be about as crazy as anything you could try to do trying to create a world where some how some way half of all people can work from home.
